drinking water
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- noun
- /ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ ˈwɔːtər/
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agua potable
- Access to safe drinking water is essential for maintaining good health.
- safe drinking water
- access to drinking water
- drinking water supply
Speaking of drinking water, this is my gym water bottle, which is the Ohala.
- Speaking of drinking water, this is my gym water bottle, which is the Ohala.
- And that they're using these leftover thrown away jugs for their own drinking water.
- Then we have the RO desalina tion system so we could have potable drinking water.
- The grandstanding and performing about drinking water like it's new or novel.
- I mean, there's so many benefits of being well hydrated of drinking water.
Examples
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Studies have shown that current lead levels in drinking water can adversely affect a child's health.
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Let's test the drinking water quality.
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Adding it to drinking water was the most important move in public health in history.
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The rest of the city needs drinking water.
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The drinking water is now hard to find.
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Healthy drinking water is vital to all of us.
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Can you all spare us some drinking water?
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Over a billion people living in developing countries without access to safe drinking water are facing economic and water poverty.
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Providing citizens with purified drinking water is essential for improved health conditions.
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All except one of the wells from which Cedar Rapids draws its drinking water have been overwhelmed.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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A supply of water for a town, building, or home
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Water that is safe to drink and use
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Water sold in bottles for people to drink
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Water that comes from a tap used for drinking or cooking
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Water that comes from under the ground and is safe to drink
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Water without bubbles that people drink from bottles
How Safe
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'water that is safe and suitable for people to drink' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'drinking' (the act of swallowing liquids) with 'water' (H₂O). This modifier-noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English noun-compound patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Drinking water comes from the simple idea of water meant for drinking, not for washing or for animals. People would mark wells or containers to show this water was safe, so the phrase now means 'water that is safe to drink'.